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Random fields in nature often have, to a good approximation, Gaussian characteristics. For such fields, the relative densities of umbilical points -- topological defects which can be classified into three types -- have certain fixed values.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-09 A. M. Turner , T. H. Beuman , V. Vitelli

We consider two-particle dispersion in a velocity field, where the relative two-point velocity scales according to $v^{2}(r)\propto r^{\alpha}$ and the corresponding correlation time scales as $\tau (r)\propto r^{\beta}$, and fix $\alpha…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Sokolov

Simulations of vortex tube dynamics reveal that the non-Gaussian nature of turbulent fluctuation originates in the effect of random advection. A similar non-Gaussian distribution is found numerically in a simplified statistical model of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Y-h. Taguchi , Hideki Takayasu

We investigate non-Gaussianity in general multiple-field inflation using the formalism we developed in earlier papers. We use a perturbative expansion of the non-linear equations to calculate the three-point correlator of the curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard , B. J. W. van Tent

In this paper, we develop the method of analyzing the velocity field of cosmic matter with a multiresolution decomposition. This is necessary in calculating the redshift distortion of power spectrum in the discrete wavelet transform (DWT)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xiao-Hu Yang , Long-Long Feng , Yao-Quan Chu , Li-Zhi Fang

We consider the expected level of primordial non-Gaussianities in models in which density perturbations are produced by spatial fluctuations in the decay rate of the inflaton. We consider both the non-Gaussianities resulting from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matias Zaldarriaga

The observed abundance of high-redshift galaxies and clusters contains precious information about the properties of the initial perturbations. We present a method to compute analytically the number density of objects as a function of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

We unify two approaches that have been taken to explain the non-Gaussian probability distribution functions (PDFs) obtained in measurements of longitudinal velocity differences in turbulence, and we apply our approach to Couette-Taylor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sunghwan Jung , Harry L. Swinney

We consider non-equilibrium evolution of non-Gaussian fluctuations in a hydrodynamic system undergoing a boost-invariant expansion described by Bjorken flow. We derive the evolution equations for two- and three-point velocity correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Gokce Basar , Shuo Song

Non-Gaussian velocity distribution in star forming region is reproduced by inelastic clump collision model. We numerically calculated the evolution of inelastic hard spheres in sheared flow, which corresponds to cloud clumps in differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Shigeru Ida , Y-h. Taguchi

We compute the skewness $t_3$ and the corresponding hierarchical amplitude $T_3$ of the divergence of the velocity field for arbitrary non-Gaussian initial conditions. We find that $T_3$ qualitatively resembles the corresponding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Zacharias A. M. Protogeros , Robert J. Scherrer

The velocity distribution of a fluidized dilute granular gas in the direction perpendicular to the gravitational field is investigated by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations. The results indicate that the velocity distribution can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

Atmospheric trace-gas inversion is the procedure by which the sources and sinks of a trace gas are identified from observations of its mole fraction at isolated locations in space and time. This is inherently a spatio-temporal bivariate…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-16 Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Noel Cressie , Anita L. Ganesan

We study the non-Gaussian tail of the probability distribution function of density in cosmological N-Body simulations for a variety of initial conditions. We compare the behaviour of the non-Gaussian tail in the real space with that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla , Suryadeep Ray

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is observed in several biological and soft matter systems, yet the underlying mechanisms behind the emergence of non-Gaussianity while retaining a linear mean square displacement remain speculative. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-06 Indrani Chakraborty , Yael Roichman

The gravitational evolution of the genus of the density field in large-scale structure is analytically studied in a weakly nonlinear regime using second-order perturbation theory. Weakly nonlinear evolution produces asymmetry in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Matsubara

We present a simple model for the shape of the distribution function of galaxy peculiar velocities. We show how both nonlinear and linear theory terms combine to produce a distribution which has an approximately Gaussian core with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ravi K. Sheth , Antonaldo Diaferio

In the environmental modeling field, the exploratory analysis of responses often exhibits spatial correlation as well as some non-Gaussian attributes such as skewness and/or heavy-tailedness. Consequently, we propose a general spatial model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Behzad Mahmoudian

Cosmological linear perturbation theory predicts that the peculiar velocity $V(x)$ and the matter overdensity $\delta(x)$ at a same point $x$ are statistically independent quantities, as log as the initial density fluctuations are random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoki Seto

We study evolution of various statistical quantities of smoothed cosmic density and velocity fields using N-body simulations. The parameter $C\equiv <V^2\delta>/(<V^2> <\delta^2>)$ characterizes nonlinear coupling of these two fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Naoki Seto , Naoshi Sugiyama